“...Realization is born from error...”

“the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.”

“...Past joys and achievements give us the outlines of how to get to a state of happiness again. That memory is a treasure that can never be taken away. At least we know where we were, what we have ...”

“ a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.”

“...Hope is a ridiculous failing that we need to harbour in order to lead a serene life”

“...No reformer is worthy of the name if he fails to be the ultimate pacesetter in his own reform drive...”

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be e...”

“Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”